Wii U - Custom System Fonts

A variety of custom system-wide fonts for the Wii U.

Check out the System Font Customization Guide for creating your own custom system font for Wii U!

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Table of Contents:

• Pop Happiness Font

• Pop Joy Font

• Installing the Custom System Font to Wii U

• Installing the Custom System Font to Cemu

• Some screenshots of games officially using those fonts

Pop Happiness

Pop Happiness (Popハッピネス) is a Point of Purchase typeface designed by Fontworks.

It is used for the UI in many Nintendo games. It is also used for the tutorial sections in Hyperdimension Neptunia games for the PlayStation 3.

List of Games Using this Font for the UI:

• Luigi’s Mansion
• Super Mario Sunshine
• Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour
• Super Mario Galaxy
• Super Mario Galaxy 2
• Hyperdimension Neptunia
• Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2
• Kirby’s Return to Dream Land / Adventure Wii
• Mario Tennis Open
• Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory / Re;Birth3: V Generation
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity
• Mario Kart Arcade GP DX
• Mario Golf: World Tour
• Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon
• Complete list of Mario related games using this font

Download Font:

• TTF - for Wii U

• OTF - for anything else

• TTF - for anything else (Fixed side-bearings) *

* Fixed the side-bearings (spacing) for Greek glyphs, Cyrillic glyphs,
and the following glyphs: ° ´ ‘ ’ “ ” ′ ″
This fix is included in the Wii U system font.

Pop Joy

Pop Joy (Popジョイ) is a rounded Point of Purchase typeface designed by Fontworks.

It is commonly used for the UI in Paper Mario games.

List of Games Using this Font for the UI:

• Dr. Mario 64
• Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
• Super Paper Mario
• Donkey Kong: Jungle Climber
• Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory
• Paper Mario: Sticker Star
• Paper Mario: Color Splash
• Paper Mario: The Origami King
• Complete list of Mario related games using this font

Download Font:

• TTF - for Wii U

• OTF - for anything else

• TTF - for anything else (Fixed side-bearings) ¹

• TTF - for anything else (Fixed side-bearings + Scaled) ²

¹ Fixed the side-bearings (spacing) for Greek glyphs, Cyrillic glyphs,
and the following glyphs: ° ´ ‘ ’ “ ” ′ ″
² The glyphs' horizontal scale has been adjusted to be less wider.
Both tweaks are included in the Wii U system font to avoid text clipping/wrapping.

Installing the Custom System Font to Wii U

Aroma custom firmware is required to use the mod. Install CFW if you haven’t already.

No system files are modified in the process. The custom system font is loaded into RAM only.

1. Download the System Font Replacer plugin.

2. Add the downloaded font file to SDCARD:/wiiu/fonts.

3. Open the Plugin menu (L + D-Pad ↓ + Select).

4. Go to System Font Replacer.

5. Select the downloaded font file for Standard font.

6. Disable Use custom fonts only for Wii U Menu to apply the font system-wide.

7. Reboot the console.

8. The custom system font has been installed.

Installing the Custom System Font to Cemu

You can also install the custom system font to Cemu emulator.

1. Rename the downloaded font file to CafeStd.ttf.

2. Launch Cemu.

3. Go to File → Open MLC folder.

4. Navigate to /sys/title/0005001b/10042400/content. Create folders if those don’t exist.

5. Add the CafeStd.ttf file here.

6. Launch any of the system apps (if installed) and see how the custom system font looks.

Do not add the CafeStd.ttf file to /Cemu/resources/sharedFonts, those are replacement system fonts which are used if the real system fonts don't exist.
Any custom/real system font files placed in this folder will be overwritten with replacement ones after Cemu updates.

Screenshots

Some screenshots of games officially using those fonts.

Click any of the screenshots below for full view.

Super Mario Galaxy
Pop Happiness font used for the UI.
Screenshot taken with Dolphin Emulator

Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2
Pop Happiness font used for the tutorial sections.
Screenshot taken with RPCS3 emulator

Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory Re;Birth3: V Generation
Pop Happiness font used for the "Teach Me, Histy!" display text, it is shown each time a tutorial is unlocked.
Screenshot taken with RPCS3 emulator (Victory)

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Pop Joy font used for the UI.
Screenshot taken with Dolphin Emulator

Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory
Pop Joy font used for the tutorial sections.
Screenshot taken with RPCS3 emulator

Paper Mario: Color Splash
Pop Joy font used for the UI.
Screenshot taken with Cemu emulator

Paper Mario: The Origami King
Pop Joy font used for the UI.
Screenshot taken with Ryujinx emulator